Biography of hilary mckay

British writer of children's books (born 1959)

Hilary McKay (born 12 June 1959)^[1] is a British writer of children's books.

For her first novel, The Exiles, she won the 1992 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.^[2]

Biography

McKay was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, the eldest of four daughters.

Biography of hilary mckay

She studied English, Zoology and Botany at St Andrews University before becoming a public protection scientist. She currently resides in Derbyshire with her husband, Kevin.^[3][4]

McKay says of herself as a child "I anaesthetised myself against the big bad world with large doses of literature.

The local library was as familiar to me as my own home."^[5]

The Casson Family books

The Casson Family series comprises the Whitbread Award-winning Saffy's Angel (2001) and four sequels: Indigo's Star (2004), Permanent Rose (2005), which was sho